“Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.” – Leo Buscaglia
“At least I know what love is. Like clouds love the sky, ocean loves sand, winter loves snow, snow loves breeze, it’s all connected. It’s called unconditional love. It’s in our heart.” – Niki Yan
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” – 1 John 4:18 (NKJV)
“To love is to admire with the heart: to admire is to love with the mind.”- Theophile Gautier
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.” – Karen Sunde
“Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.” – C. S. Lewis
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine
“Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” – William Shakespeare
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” – Barbara De Angelis
“To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.” – Van Lubreitz
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix
“Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others’ love to us.” – Thomas Trahern
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.” – Erich Fromm
“Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.” – Hugh Elliott
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitz
“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” – Robert Browning
“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” – Amy Carmichael
“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Browning
“Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being “drawn toward.” Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one’s friends and enemies.” – Carter Heyward
“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” – Erich Fromm
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.” – Josiah G. Holland
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” – Paulo Coelho
“We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” – Mother Teresa
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” – Barbara De Angelis
“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love” – Mother Teresa
“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.” – David Byrne
“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” – John Keats
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
“Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” – Rabbi Julius Gordon
“There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.” – George Sand
“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.” – Peace Pilgrim
“Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.”- Greg Evans
“Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically.” – Karl Menninger
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
“True love doesn’t have a happy ending: True love doesn’t have an ending.” Author Unknown
“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” – John Ciardi
Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.” – Gloria Gaither
